The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance in this edition of Lobster. The long URL in the footnotes problem There is a problem with long URLs in the footnotes. When a URL runs beyond a single line our computers sometimes read the […]
[…] and White Helmets In this column in the previous Lobster I wrote this: ‘Bellingcat is a puzzle to me. I ought to be in the chorus of liberal Western intelligentsia cheering them on but I’m not. Why? Because the vast majority of their reports have had the effect of bolstering Western/NATO policy objectives. When […]
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[PDF file]: […] the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a man with no publicly traceable political history, whose entire […]
[PDF file]: […] the Pope’s recent encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. ‘168. The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neo liberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes. Neoliberalism simply reproduces itself by 15 49 resorting to […]
[PDF file]: […] announcement that travel restrictions would be eased for US Americans (Cuba has never forbidden US citizens with valid visa documents to enter the country) sent waves through liberal and leftish America.1 5 Yet in the ‘fine print’ the State Department also explained ‘there is no plan to change US policy’. Mr Obama no longer […]
[PDF file]: […] ore transparent are the loyalties of Roger Alton to his latest boss, Rupert Murdoch. The 63-year-old executive editor of The Times was a key figure in so-called liberal journalism for most of his earlier career. A favourite of former Guardian editor Peter Preston, Alton achieved prominence on that title before becoming editor of The […]
[PDF file]: […] quite frequently by fellow freemasons in his endeavours. The Brotherhood He was admitted to the Humanitas Lodge in 1921 which, in keeping with most Austrian lodges, had liberal, humanitarian views, part of a tradition dating back to the Enlightenment. Coudenhove-Kalergi attended the 1922 World Peace Conference in Prague accompanied by Richard Schlesinger and Wladimir […]
